Farzana Rashid, '05, Afghanistan, sent this picture from a Class of 2005 mini-reunion in Kabul: Farzana, husband Rafiq, Chnara Mamatova (Kyrgyzstan) and Wahid Waissi (Afghanistan). (July 2007)

Camilo Rubio '99, Colombia, sent this picture of his growing daughters. (June 2007)

Shiref Shabana, '07, Egypt, pictured with wife Mai and new baby Maya. (January 2008)

Muche Netsere, '03, Zeleka Paulos, '01, Tefera Lemma, '02 Ethiopia, share dinner with CDE Director Tom Powers in Addis Ababa. (June 2008)

Seilbek Urustemov '07, Kyrgyz Republic, at a World Bank program in Tokyo (see Reunion below) perfecting his sushi technique. (November 2008)

Mussah Alemame Kamara '07, Liberia, met up with Seilbek at a World Bank program in Tokyo (see Reunion below). (November 2008)

Gantuya (Gana) Badamgarav, '06, Mongolia, represented the CDE at a recent Education Fair, attended by hundreds of potential candidates. (October 2008)

Margarito (Gary) Teves, '68, Philippines, named "Finance Minister of the Year/Asia" by London-based international finance magazine, The Banker. View news about the award online: click here and also see the article in The Banker (January 2009)

Margarito (Gary) Teves, '68, Philippines, came to Williams College to deliver a lecture at Griffin Hall, “Forging Economic Policy: A Finance Minister’s Perspective”. Mr. Teves was appointed Finance Secretary of the Philippines in 2005. Professor Jerry Caprio, chair of the CDE, introduced Secretary Teves. The audience of CDE students, undergrads, faculty and community members included CDE professors Roger Bolton, Henry Bruton, Doug Gollin, and John Sheahan, and long-standing CDE host family volunteer, Ginny Gaskill. Secretary Teves was accompanied by Rosalia de Leon (class of 1991). (October 2008)

Otilia Frolu, '04, Romania, sent an email with news. She reports "I'm still working for the Government Treasury, fully involved in curbing the public financing towards financial markets, and developing the local ones. I got involved in this immediately after I arrived, in fall 2004, and I can tell that the course that Tom taught had an immediate impact for me. We had IBRD and EIB issuing bonds on the local market, locally denominated, supplying the market alongside the Treasury. Still working on it, though."

Mohamed Ahmed Elbushra, '82, Sudan, writes that he is still working in Saudi Arabia (in the Saudi Geological Survey) as a translator (English/ Arabic). (April 2009)

Bheki Bhembe, '05, Swaziland, writes,"I've attached a photo of our son, who was born on the 7th of February 2007. My apologies for sending this photo so late, I've been out of office for the past one and half months. Hlobi and I are so excited even though he is keeping us awake for the better part of our nights." (February 2007)

Len Kisarika, '85, Tanzania, Martin Indiatsi (2011) and Danielle Callaway (2008 and Fulbright Scholar to Tanzania) meet with CDE alumnus Len Kisarika (1985) at Mr. Kisarika's Bank of Tanzania office in Dar es Salaam during Winter Study 2009 course in Tanzania. (January 2009)

Wichayayuth Boonchit, '01, Thailand sent pictures of fishing in Canada. (July 2007)

Orzimurad (Murad) Gaybullaev, '08, Uzebekistan, at dinner with (from left to right) Diyora Kabulova, '07 and Tom Powers, College '81, Sajida Tashpulatova, '05, Murad, '08, and Vladlen Kim, '03. (November 2008)

Duc Truong, '05 and Thi Thu Trang Truong, '05 and baby, Vietnam, reunite with Tom Powers and other alums from Vietnam: Luong Hoang '05, Phuong Thi Hoang Luu '07, and Pham Hoai Nam '06. (November 2007)

Dang Nhu Van (Camly), '99, Vietnam, writes to say she is working on a PhD in Economics in Singapore. (July 2007)

Five CDE alumni attended a training course organized by the World Bank for the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program alumni in Japan (among 16 participants). In the photo are: Seilbek Urustemov '07, (Kyrgyz Republic), Jerson Posada Molina '06 (El Salvador), Leila Abou Nehme Sawaya '06 (Lebanon), Trang Truong '05 (Vietnam), Mussah Alemame Kamara '07 (Liberia). (November 2008)

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